Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPET Writing Part 2 (story)
Season 1 Episode 128
In this podcast I'm going to talk about part two of the Cambridge English PET or Preliminary writing paper, where you have the option of writing a st…
3 years, 10 months ago
B1 B2 Parks and Park Vocabulary
Season 1 Episode 127
As the season of exams comes to a close at the end of the school year, I'm going to start with another type of podcast - looking at vocabulary of the…
3 years, 10 months ago
B2 Intonation (poem of Bishop Hatto)
Season 1 Episode 126
I'm still on the theme of intonation and how important it is to place more emphasis or stress on the meaning words. That is: the nouns, verbs, adject…
3 years, 10 months ago
B2 First Certificate speaking part 4
Season 1 Episode 125
I was giving some students a practice speaking test the other day and I noticed something that worried me. All students learn those set phrases for P…
3 years, 10 months ago
B2 FCE Speaking test part 3
Season 1 Episode 124
When I was examining some students the other day for First Certificate (FCE) speaking exam, I noticed one thing especially which most students could …
3 years, 10 months ago
B1 B2 The uses of the adverb 'long'
Season 1 Episode 123
How long is a piece of string? How long have you been waiting? My goodness! You weren't very long! How long does it take? Not long. The use of 'long'…
3 years, 10 months ago
Cambridge First Certificate speaking exam part 2
Season 1 Episode 122
Help and secrets for passing Cambridge First Certificate speaking exam part 2. While you are speaking, both examiners in the room are listening and a…
3 years, 11 months ago
B1 Future forms
Season 1 Episode 121
For a student who is still in the pre-intermediate level of English, it's very easy to think that 'will' is what we use to talk about future. To get …
3 years, 11 months ago
B2 Wish and If only (a summary)
Season 1 Episode 120
This is a follow-up from podcast 11, which was about 'wish' and 'if only' to talk about unreal or unlikely situations. I'm continuing on that theme t…
3 years, 11 months ago
B1 PET speaking exam part 4
Season 1 Episode 119
This is a continuation of podcast 117, which showed you how to do Part 3 of the Cambridge English exam. In this podcast, I'll show you how to pass Pa…
3 years, 11 months ago